Well, I dropped my bike last night taking a turn at about 15, dropped it right on bar end and scratch the hand guard pretty well. I'm pretty sure I bent the bars after reading a couple posts on here about others who have dropped their bikes. Nothing seems to really be messed up but for some reason it looks like the front tire is not aligned with the front fender or what I would like to call the fairing. I have new bars on the way, I was already planning on getting them anyways.

The rim isn't bent from what I can tell and my forks aren't bent at all.

My main question; is there a way that I could have knocked something out of alignement and is there a way to fix this without spending the crazy amount of money at my dealers. I'm not sure if it's like a bicycle where I can just put the front tire in between my legs and just push the bars to make it aligned again?

Any information would be greatly appreciated.

 

You tweaked the forks, 99% sure. You can fix them easily, most of the time I do it the dirty way by pulling up to a tree and using the handlebars to bang the front wheel straight. Kind of like your bmx bike example. The correct way would be to loosen the triple clamps at the fork tubes and re-align them. Use a torque wrench to tighten the triples back down. I don't have the torque values off hand but the bolts that clamp the fork tubes are not tightened very tight.
Dan

 

+1, what he said. I've done it many times, it's an easy DIY.
Just loosen the bottom triple clamp, not the top too, or your forks will slide up and you will have a low rider, lol.
Whack it until the fender looks straight over the tire. Not scientific but gets it real close.
Don't worry about hurting the wheel, it and the tree can take it.

 

So to be sure I understand this correctly, the "bottom clamp" is the one that would be directly under the handlebars in the center, right? I attempted to draw an arrow to the one I believe it would be.

 

No, the lowest pair of clamps that hold the fork tubes.



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Front Fork upper clamp bolt torque: 20 N-m/ 14.5 ft lbs
Front fork lower clamp bolt torque: 25 N-m/ 18 ft lbs

Hope that helps!

 

No.
Look at the fork tubes, they are "clamped " by the upper and lower triple tree. There are bolts at the outside of the tipples that you need to loosen if you want to do it the proper way. Like i said , out on the trails, if I tweak them I pull up to the next tree and ,without loosening them , whack the front tire on a tree to get it straight. .

 

No, no, no. That's the steering stem nut, like on a bicycle, it holds the front end compressed together.
It'll be the clamp on the fork leg, right next to the fender.
Here's a crappy pic of me pointing to it:

 

I loosen them on the trail to fix and tighten(but just) when I don't have a torque wrench.
It's the same as what dan888 does, but takes less whacks to get it back, but also takes tools, which his method doesn't. 6 of 1 or 1/2 dozen of the other.

 

Thank you for these! It really did help because I was struggling finding the specs in my manual.

I used both methods you all suggested, loosened them up and put the wheel between my legs and turned, got it lined up and then tightened it all up again. The bars are no doubt bent, but that's alright seeing as I ordered a new set last week.

Thanks for all the info everyone! Safe riding.